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 Guatemala Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The '''Republic of Guatemala''' is a country in Central America, in the south of the continent of North America, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
From the 4th century4th to the 11th century, the lowlands area of the Peten region of Guatemala was the heart of the flourishing Maya civilization.
Guatemala's unicameral parliament, the ''Congress of GuatemalaCongreso de la República'' (Congress of the Republic) with 158 seats, is elected every four years, concurrently with the presidential elections.
www.echostatic.com /Guatemala.html   (864 words)

  
 Politics of Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guatemala's 1985 constitution provides for a separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
Supreme Court justices are elected by the Congress from a list submitted by the bar association, law school deans, a university rector, and appellate judges.
Guatemala City and 330 other municipalities are governed by popularly elected mayors or councils.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Guatemala   (782 words)

  
 Congress of Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Congress of the Republic (Spanish: Congreso de la República) is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Guatemala.
It comprises 140 deputies, who are elected by direct universal suffrage to serve four-year terms.
Guatemala also returns deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Congress_of_Guatemala   (114 words)

  
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 Encyclopedia: Guatemala
From the 3rd century BCE to the 11th century CE, the lowlands area of the Petén and Izabal regions of Guatemala were the heart of the flourishing Maya civilization.
Guatemala has long claimed all or part of the territory of neighboring Belize, which used to be part of the Guatemalan Republic since Colonial times.
Guatemala's unicameral parliament, the Congreso de la República (Congress of the Republic) with 158 seats, is elected every four years, concurrently with the presidential elections.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guatemala   (4425 words)

  
 Reagan & Guatemala's Death Files
From his eight years in the White House, there is no historical indication that he was troubled by the bloodbath and even genocide that occurred in Central America during his presidency, while he was shipping hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the implicated forces.
According to a CIA source, "the social population appeared to fully support the guerrillas" and "the soldiers were forced to fire at anything that moved." The CIA cable added that "the Guatemalan authorities admitted that 'many civilians' were killed in Cocob, many of whom undoubtedly were noncombatants.
Guatemala, of course, was not the only Central American country where Reagan and his administration supported brutal counterinsurgency operations -- and then sought to cover up the bloody facts.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Ronald_Reagan/Reagan_Guatemala.html   (3492 words)

  
 History of GUATEMALA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The long narrow strip of central America, known in its entirety to the Spanish as Guatemala, is among the earliest of colonial conquests on the mainland.
The result is Guatemala's first democratic constitution and a presidential election which is won, with 85% of the vote, by a university lecturer, Juan José Arévalo.
Under a bewildering succession of rulers, most of them military, Guatemala is subject to the terrifying activities of mysterious death squads - apparently linked to the military and police, and with leftist opponents of the regime as their main victims.
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac12   (1309 words)

  
 Conferencia Episcopal de Guatemala
An inculturate congress, which reflects the faces of the indigenous, the fl, the peasant -campesinos, subsistent farmers-, the marginalised and all the People of God of the continent.
A congress where the witness of Christians -men and women- and the solidarity of the Churches and peoples of the continent, pushes for a new evangelization and generates a spirituality of mission and commitment of witness.
This is why this congress wants to be a privileged occasion to propose a missionary evangelization not only for and with the little ones and poor, but also from them, and at the simultaneously finds ground that has been made fertile with the blood of their martyrs of yesterday and today.
www.cam2guatemala.org /concin.htm   (1667 words)

  
 Guatemala: General Information: Energy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guatemala's oil reserves are concentrated in the remote northern Peten jungle region.
In October 1996, the Congress of Guatemala voted to reform the electric power market, allowing the private sector to participate in a number of projects.
Currently, Guatemala imports most of its electric power systems equipment from the United States, and the market has been growing rapidly due to the General Electricity Law, passed by Guatemala's Congress in November 1996, which facilitates private investment in the sector.
www.ahguatemala.com /general_information/energy   (959 words)

  
 Guatemala Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Central America, where Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador were devastated by civil war in the 1970s and '80s and where citizens expected a substantial "peace dividend" after arms were laid down.
Portillo's 68 percent landslide against a former Guatemala City mayor came despite--some say because of--revelations that he shot and killed two men in a drunken brawl in Mexico 17 years ago, then fled out of fear that he would not get a fair trial.
He was elected to Congress as a centrist Christian Democrat in 1990, then switched to the Guatemalan Republican Front in 1995 to run for president.
www.eecs.umich.edu /~pavr/harbury/archive/2000/20000115b.html   (2249 words)

  
 MSF-USA: 2002 Activity Report - Guatemala
In Lomas de Santa Faz, one of the city's slums, MSF is in charge of the therapeutic crèche "Casa del Patojo," where children at high risk of ending up in the street, as well as their parents, receive medical assistance and psychological support.
ARV treatment began in 2001 at Roosevelt Hospital and at an MSF clinic in Guatemala City, and in April 2002 at the clinic of Proyecto Vida, in Coatepeque.
Guatemala has become a key route for undocumented migration to the United States.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2002/guatemala.cfm   (458 words)

  
 GUATEMALA: FIRST WOMAN TO HEAD CONGRESS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
and the main challenge was to overcome resistance to my political activities from my male colleagues." the most recent example of this was the reaction that her candidature to the presidency of congress provoked.
for instance, she admits that as president of the congress, she has been able to fulfil one of her fondest dreams -- that of creating a special commission that will promote laws benefitting guatemalan women.
today, in addition to leading the country's congress, soberanis is also vice-president of the central american christian democrat organisation, joint secretary general of the gcd and director of the guatemalan institute of political studies.
www.holysmoke.org /fem/fem0358.htm   (572 words)

  
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Congress has included the ban on FMF and regular IMET for Guatemala each year as part of the foreign aid appropriations bill as a response to the Guatemalan government’s lack of compliance with the military reform provisions of the 1996 peace accords.
Congress approved approximately a quarter of a billion dollars in development assistance to Guatemala over a four-year period starting in 1996 to help Guatemala implement the peace accords.
Members of Congress from both parties have expressed concern over the Guatemalan government’s failure to comply with key aspects of the peace accords, including military and intelligence reforms, improving respect for human rights, protecting indigenous rights and investing more government resources in poverty reduction.
www.lawg.org /countries/guatemala/congress_watch.htm   (279 words)

  
 National Advancement Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Advancement Party (Spanish: Partido de Avanzada Nacional) is a political party in Guatemala.
At the last legislative elections, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 10.9% of the popular vote and 17 out of 158 seats in Congress.
The party's presidential candidate Leonel López Rodas won 8.4% in the presidential elections held on the same day; duly eliminated, he did not compete in the second round.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Advancement_Party   (112 words)

  
 ICC Ratification - Guatemala - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guatemala: encourage Congress to approve accession to the Rome Statute
By approving accession to the Rome Statute, the government of Guatemala has a historic opportunity to end the country's systemic failure to bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst human rights violations.
In 1996, Guatemala emerged from over three decades of a conflict in which up to 200,000 people lost their lives.
web.amnesty.org /pages/385-150404-action-eng   (165 words)

  
 BLOWBACK - Guatemalan Congressional Testimony
Special Forces were not the only U.S institution involved in Guatemala; the CIA had long-standing involvement, which had truly begun in earnest with the 1954 operation PBSuccess which overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Jacobo Arbenz (15) and begun Guatemala's rapid descent into the current nightmare.
Even when, in later years, U.S. aid was officially cut to Guatemala, the CIA maintained its aid and support to the Guatemalan intelligence services, the same services cited by the Commission for their use of terror as an explicit tool.
We can all assume that when Eisenhower was signing up to destroy democracy in Guatemala, he did not think that among the consequences would be the brutal torture of an American nun or a vicious knife attack against a young American with the courage to live her ideals.
www.blowbacknet.com /info_files_guatemala_congress.html   (1642 words)

  
 Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guatemala is of interest because it is in the process of deregulating its power sector and is creating a competitive environment in generation, transmission, and distribution.
Guatemala has decided that major changes need to be made, since the state-owned power companies are heavily in debt and do not have the resources to add this capacity.
Guatemala had become heavily reliant on hydropower with the construction of large hydroelectric dams that came on line in the 1970s, and hydropower accounted for 92 percent of generation in 1990, with oil and diesel-fired plants accounting for the rest.
www.converger.com /eiacab/guatemal.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Jennifer Harbury Letters & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But once the tax bill was introduced to congress, the ruling National Advancement Party (PAN) amended it to include all property owners regardless of size and to divert a significant proportion of the revenue to the central government.
Guatemala City, March 4 One thousand mass graves concealing the victims of the Guatemalan army's counter-insurgency war are located in three northern provinces, according to the Archdiosesan Human Rights Office (ODHA).
Guatemala, the Americas' fifth largest recipient of United States anti-drug aid, received the US State Department drug war seal of approval yesterday.
www.eecs.umich.edu /~pavr/harbury/archive/1998/cwb10_98.html   (1880 words)

  
 The Process of Demining and Destroying UXO in Guatemala by Guillermo Pacheco (8.2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The process of demining and destroying UXO in Guatemala is characterized by a collaborative effort between civilians and military personnel.
Likewise, the demining and UXO destruction operations that Guatemala executes reflect the characteristics that were prevalent during the armed conflict, including the rare use of anti-personnel mines and UXO proliferation.
The objective was including Guatemala in the program that the PADCA/OAS had been executing in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica since 1992—the same year that the government of Guatemala solicited to be considered within the Program but had to be excluded at the time due to the conflict.
maic.jmu.edu /journal/8.2/focus/pacheco.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Guatemala Election, 2003 Information - Articles Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A General Election was held in Guatemala on 9 November 2003.
Voters went to the polls to elect a new President (and Vice-President), a new legislature (deputies for the unicameral Congreso de la República), municipal governments, and Guatemala's deputies to the Central American Parliament.
The ruling Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera.
www.articlesfree.com /index.php?title=Guatemala_election,_2003   (287 words)

  
 GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Guatemala
Guatemala: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes the current 1985 constitution, a version with the 1993 reforms, and the May 1999 consulta popular: Iniciativa de reforma constitucional; in Spanish
Guatemala: Electoral Laws / Leyes Electorales (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)
Country Profile of Guatemala (U.S. Dept. of Labor) from By The Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress, Volume I (July 15, 1994)
www.loc.gov /law/guide/guatemala.html   (296 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Guatemala's Congress fires comptroller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guatemala's Congress fired the government's chief accountant Wednesday after he fled the country amid allegations of political corruption.
GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemala's Congress fired the government's chief accountant Wednesday after he fled the country amid allegations of political corruption.
He left a letter to Congress asking for a 30-day leave from his job, but lawmakers denied the request and dismissed him.
www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/03/03/guatemalas_congress_fires_comptroller   (156 words)

  
 guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Inter-American Travel Congress - OAS Inter-Sectoral Unit for Tourism
The Inter American Travel Congress (IATC) was established in 1939 to develop travel in the Americas, to conduct technical studies, to maintain contact between Government organizations and the private sector, to consider projects for technical cooperation, and to support the member states in their tourism development efforts.
Through the Inter-American Travel Congress representatives of the 34 member states of the Organization of the American States (OAS) and leaders from the private sector shape hemispheric tourism policies and establish priorities for programs and projects of the OAS in the tourism sector.
To recommend that the agenda for the event addresses the issues related to the strengthening of tourism as a hemispheric development tool and in particular the role of the small tourism enterprise in the generation of employment and overall sector competitiveness and growth.
www.oas.org /tourism/tr_inte1.htm   (1091 words)

  
 Research on the disappearances of children in Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
  On May 13th in Guatemala City an American woman carrying an adopted Guatemalan baby had to be escorted by armed police through a crowd chanting, "Justice!"  On May 21, the newspaper touts the discovery of a gringa's clandestine house of children who are, it claims, stolen or to be used in illegal adoptions.
Victor Perera, author of Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy, notes that the nerves being touched on in Guatemala today have roots that date back 500 years, to 16th century Mayan stories about pale-skinned Spanish conquistadors who needed the blood of dark-skinned babies to preserve their power (LA Times, May 1, 1994).
  But children, in Guatemala as in the rest of the world, disappear for any number of reasons--they run away, go to live with other relatives, are kidnapped in custody battles, fall prey to random violence.
home.earthlink.net /~salutor/Guatemala_Story.html   (6327 words)

  
 Agenzia Fides - AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Making our parishes missionary” is the theme of the 2nd national mission ...
In a message issued 15 April in view of the Congress the Guatemalan Bishops quoted Pope John Paul II’s letter “Mane nobiscum Domine”, “Once we have truly met the Risen One by partaking of his body and blood, we cannot keep to ourselves the joy we have experienced.
The encounter with Christ, constantly intensified and deepened in the Eucharist, issues in the Church and in every Christian an urgent summons to testimony and evangelisation” (MND 24) stressing that a parish will be missionary to the extent that it is a Eucharistic parish.
In preparation for the event the people of Guatemala are studying the Congress working paper and the conclusions of CAM 2, striving to apply them to daily reality in the local Churches.
www.fides.org /eng/news/2005/0504/26_4725.html   (250 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Guatemala to pay paramilitaries
Guatemala says it will pay at least $420m to paramilitaries who battled rebels during the country's civil war.
The former fighters, who activists say are responsible for war crimes, had threatened to paralyse the country if Congress did not approve the payments.
In approving the payments Congress overturned a ruling by the country's highest court last year which had declared the payment of the fighters unconstitutional.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3582160.stm   (291 words)

  
 Congreso de la Republica de Guatemala: Noticias: Guatemala third country to ratify DR-CAFTA as others hold back
Guatemala on March 10 became the third Central American country after Honduras and El Salvador to ratify a free trade agreement with the U.S., Dominican Republic and three other Central American countries that are moving more slowly in ratifying the deal.
This move would not be in the best interests of these countries, since once the U.S. ratifies the agreement, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador will automatically reap the benefits of the free trade package, while the other countries that had failed to ratify the agreement will be left behind, one informed source said.
Pressure on the Bush Administration and Congress to approve a free trade agreement negotiated with Central American countries and the Dominican Republic is likely to build following this week’s ratification of the DR-CAFTA by Guatemala’s Congress and passage of legislation ending an intellectual property fight with the United States.
www.congreso.gob.gt /gt/ver_noticia.asp?id=506   (2517 words)

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